Chelsea D Chamberlain

Legitimately a dream to write something that inspires a reader to "go Martin Luther Mode."

when you get to the afterlife and the first guy you meet fathered a child with his 14 year old slave who was also his half-sister-in-law

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

Decided to branch out and cook a new recipe—a zucchini and saffron risottos— but I’m halfway through cooking it and based on the smell it turns out I don’t like saffron. Damn.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

I love Bouie columns that open with “important thing said by historian” (Steven Hahn) then applies that to the news then finds other historical analogies (Charles I, Emma Goldman). He’s an incredible public historian.

Alaska voters are absolutely SICK of hearing about trans athletes.

I hope people see what Amy Acton's brother had to say about her courage in protecting him growing up www.instagram.com/p/DeP_TXQSr2Q/

I just read The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva and I think it explored some of these fears and intergenerational dynamics realllly well. A book that's staying with me.

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

oh my god

This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds

Northeast Pennsylvania politics barometer: the house that had a Trump statue on the porch for years has taken it down!

“you got that hit mail piece on Talarico?” “sure thing, boss, real fucking sexy just like you asked” “what?”

after a week solo parenting the house is a disaster zone but at least I've been a good steward of @ryanlcooper.com's solar and battery setup. NO wasted electrons here.

i know that they're (mostly) just trolling, and they're doubling down *because* of my big reaction, but I am not happy about how many times I just yelled "Helen Keller WAS REAL" at my class.

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

My writing mentor: "Never utilize utilize when you can use use."

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

Hello friends and followers, I'm excited to share this ongoing project with you: The Institution Cemetery Project is up and running! We have completed Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and New Jersey and Minnesota are coming next. institutioncemeteryproject.com

Really important work

Miles is getting more unsupervised time with Ryan away on a trip—just now while I was brushing my teeth and getting dressed he put on a David Bowie record by himself 😂

the toddler is asleep, which means my solo weekend is done! five weekdays to go…

my favorite part of completing the "digital check-in process" for my son's doctor's appointment is when I get to rate my experience with the digital check-in process

what's super cool is despite my best efforts I transported the smell to work with me so now my office hours are punctuated by skunk funk.

Three years in and I remain obsessed with our washer/dryer combo unit. I’m on the fourth load of laundry for the day and it has barely felt like work.

yesterday I walked into daycare for pick up and a mom in there took one look at me and said "oof you look tired." nice way to kick off the weekend...

William & Mary is hiring an assistant prof of Modern African American history! I have found this to be a great place to be a jr faculty member—terrific students, colleagues, & public education. (And we graduate 100+ history majors a year!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/70421/c...

in research methods tomorrow we're doing Adam Shapiro's great "Star in the Stones" piece from @contingent-mag.bsky.social paired with Naomi Wolf's horrific BBC interview. Takeaway: you *must* be ready and willing to revise your hypothesis!

it might be my busiest office hours in history folks, and NONE of the visits were about impending due dates or contesting grades. incredible!

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

in a reading response for an excerpt of Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" I asked students to make the case for who might be a "modern day Carnegie" and now I have to learn who Mr. Beast is after intentionally avoiding this knowledge for years

Imagine walking through the streets of London with Samuel Pepys as your guide. We’re excited to announce Samuel Pepys’ London, a new historical map from the Historic Towns Trust that will bring Restoration London vividly to life.